ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,311, issued on July 28, was assigned to PAC TECH-PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Nauen, Germany).

"Device for handling a test contact" was invented by Thorsten Krause (Hoppegarten, Germany), Andreas Meinecke (Berlin), Christopher Schulz (Ketzin, Germany) and Wladimir Motorin (Kremmen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for handling a test contact in which the device includes a contact head provided with a test contact receptacle at its contact end, the test contact receptacle having a positioning unit having at least two, preferably three, positioning surfaces for coming into positioning contact with a test contact and for ...